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FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE G, 1828.
The next session of the Legislature oi this State
will be a very important one, and it behoves the
people to exercise their utmost sagacity in the
choice of their representatives. Over and above
the usual business of legislation, in which every
citizen is more or less interested, it will devolve
on the next legislature to select eight Judges of
the Superior Courts, Attorney General and Soli
citors, and a Senator in Congress. With one or
two exceptions, the present Judges will be candi
dates for re-election; and were the question to
turn upon the fitness of the candidates, the fidel
ity and intelligence with which the present in
cumbents have fulfilled all the duties of their offi
ces, would, no doubt, secure to them almost a u
nanimous re-election. But, unfortunately for our
State, the foul spirit of party has insinuated itself
into almost every department of government,, and
in nearly every circuit, candidates have been an
nounced, who place their highest pretensions to
office on their adherence to a party. This is no
as it should be.
In this Circuit it is understood that the present
incumbent will not be a candidate for re-election.
In the middle Circuit Judge Schley will be op
posed by Gen. Holt, of Augusta. And if tire peo
ple of the Circuit, to whom he has given univer
sal satisfaction, could decide the matter, there
could be no doubt on whom the choice would rest.
la the Northern Circuit it is yet rather uncor
certain whether Judge Crawford will be a candi
date for re-election, or whether he will compete
with Gov. Troup for a seat in the Senate of the
U. S. The Caucus at Athens must settle this
matter.
In the Western Circuit Judge Underwood will
have two competitors, the late Judges Claj ton
and Harris.
There will be two competitors also tor Judge
Kenan’s seat on the bench of the Oemulgee Cir
cuit, Messrs. Thos. W\ Cobb and Eli S. Shorter.
Judge M-Donald, of the Flint Circuit, will be
opposed by Messrs. C. B. Strong and O. H. Prince.
In the Southern Circuit, Judge Fort will be op
posed by Mr. Holt.
In the Chatahoochy Circuit, as Judge Colquit
belongs the present dominant party, it is presumed
he will be suffered to run in without competition.
In all these cases, the Representatives of the
people will have to decide between the of
merit, the claim arising from past faithful service,
and the claims of party. It is to be hoped, that
the people will so far look to their own welfare,
as to send such individuals to Milledgeville as will
consult their judgments rather than their passions,
and who will legislate rather for the whole state,
than the confined limits of a particular sect.
On Monday last, a very well favored woman,
rather en- bon-point , of about forty, came before
Justice Russell, dragging along with her, her bet
ter half, in the shape of a tall, lanthern-jawed fel
low, with a hook nose, standing about 6 feet 4 in
his shoes, aged somewhat about sixty ; wbom she
represented as the most faithless and incontinent
of husbands, and prayed a decree of separation.—
Is it not enough, 6aid she, that I have followed
this abominable man all the way from Charleston
on foot, but that I must now’ put up with his in
fidelities, and pine away the live long night,while
he is frolicking and junketing at places, where a
decent man like him should be ashamed to show
his face, and moreover, says she, as I loves him to
distraction. Here she burst into a flood of tears.
“Now your honor, says the husband, that s all
stuff'. ’Tis she, the false woman, who has broken
my heart w’ith her wickedness ; did she not con
fess to me, not two hours gone by, that she had
taken Patrick O’Donagon M’Shane.the strapping
Irishman, to her bed and board, these two nights,
to comfort herself in my absence! O ! the false
jade!”
Here the lady set up an hysterical giggle; she
had, she said, told her husband that story merely
to match him for his own vile conduct.
“Was it so, my lambkin, says he, and was it all
nonsense that you told me about the strapping
Irishman, and you have not had him at all, my
darling ?”
The Justice advised them to kiss and make
friends, which the parties consented to do on the
spot, and went away,arm in arm humming Youngs
love dream, &c.
REPORTED FOR THE MERCURT.
Tiie State, ‘j Charged with committing a
violent assault and Battery
vs. on William Wilson, a free
man of color, on the 30 th day ,
Y’ork, a slave. J of May, in the City of Sa
vannah, Chatham County, j
At a Special Court of Magistrates, assembled for :
the trial of the above stated case on Monday,
June 2d, 1828. Present,
Justices Russell,
Chadbourn, and
Valleac.
The Court being duly organized according to
law, and the Defendant appearing before it, the
charge being read to him, to which he plead Not
Guilty. The Prosecution wa3 sworn, who stated
that, on the day he was working, with others, in
the hold of a vessel screwing cotton ; that he had
completed his w r ork, that the Defendant, also a
laborer on board, was working upon deck handing
the bales below by slmgs, that the Defendant
threw down a bale while deponent was under the
hatch-way, and was near being killed, and saved
himself by the bale glancing, which he caused by
shoving it in its fall; that witness enquired of
defendant, why he had done it? To which he
gave no satisfaction. Witness being irritated,
believing he had a design in doing it, cursed de
fendant. The defendant said to witness, “ Curse
me, when you come on the wharf.” Witness,
afler breaking off work, went on the wharf, where
he met defendant and repeated to him what he had
said before, when the defendant knocked him
down by a violent blow with his fist, afterwards
crossed his body and inflicted on him wounds and
bruises, which disabled him so much as to prevent
him from attending to his labor for a day or two.
Here the Counsel for the Defendant took ex
ceptions to the case proceeding any further, upon
the ground that the prosecutor had no Guardian,
and had not the power to institute a prosecution.
The Clerk of the Court was called, who stated
that no such a name as William Wilson stood of
record in his office having a Guardian.
The Prosecutor was called on to explain. He
stated, that when living in the family of Mr.
Wilson, where he was raised, he was called by
those who knew him William Wilson ; that after
wards he lived in the family of Mr. Warley ; that
many called him efface William Warley, that he
answers to each name, and is as frequently called
by one as the* other. The Clerk stated, that Wil
liam Warley stood on tire record as having a
Guardian. The note of the Guardian to the Ma
gistrate was then adduced, request ing a prosecu
tion to be instituted against the defendant, and
calling his ward's name William Wilson, alias
Wilkam Warley. The Court adjudged that the
exception should be sustained, and the prosecu
tion dismissed—-Justice Russell dissenting to the
opinion on the following grounds:—
First —That in any course of the trial, this
Court has power to amend the affidavit, because
under the act of 1811, to establish a Tribunal for
the trial of Slaves, the course there pointed out is
general.
Second—' That it never becomes a jurisdictional
court until after an examination, has been gone
through, and the offence is known; as for instance,
the charge is felony ; if a larceny, then this court
have jurisdiction; but if a burglary, they have
not, but must send up their proceedings to ano
ther and higher tribunal. And it could never
have been intended that exceptions of this kind
should be admitted as if under an Indictment in
the Superior Court’
THE YANKEE IN GEORGIA.
Mr. Printer ,
Sir—l keeps a boarding house in —— square,
and most of the northern folks boards with me.—
Yankees, you know, we call them, because as how
they love molasses and hate brandy. They say
you are a 6ir ; so if you have any
friends who. wish boarding, please send them round
to my house, where you may be sure they will be
well attended to. But, as I was saying, I last
winter had a yankee man staying with me, who
was a very decent looking person, saving that he
wore a bottle green coat of domestic manufacture,
carefully repaired at the elbows, and his cravat—
but I am never over perticiler about the dress of
your yankee folks, because I know as how they
pay their board regularly, and that is all I need
look after. Well, as I was saying, this yankee
man went to the up-country, and I never thought
• syllable more of him, because, you see, he owed
me nothing, and I reckoned as how he had a right
to go where he pleased. But tother day when
Nathan Cheatem-all, the pedlar,came down to buy
goods, he brought me a large packet of letters,
directed to Mr. lchabod Floggenbottom. of Blos
somdale village, Vermont, with a request from my
yankee boarder, that I should forward them on
free of expense. Now, Mr. Printer, can you tell
me where Blossomdale village is, and how 1 am
to get these letters there, without paying postage?
Is it on this earth, or in the West Indies, or the
Moon ? Mr. Saveall, another yankee boarder of
mine, advises me to have the letters printed in the
Mercury, and then Mr. Floggonbottom can read
them at the printing office, which is next door to
his school-house, all for nothing. If you think so
Mr. Printer, you are hereby requested to do it.
Yours,
To Mr. lchabod Flogginbottom, Schoolmaster
Blossom-dale Village, Vermont .
Dear Sir,
I arrived here yesterday in the Rising States,
from Providence, and was glad to get on shore j
again ; tarnation sea-sick the whole voyage—and
the darn’d mate kept stuffing me with fat porl
and molasses—may the divil roast him. This is a
famous great city—houses all in a row, and twice
as big as the Deacon’s house on Gimblet-hill;
but the place is all sand—nothing but sand—guess
twould nt do for an onion patch.
Did ever you year of dumb beasts who could
talk, and people who could stand on the ground
and jump over their own heads ? Guess nd. But
the darn’d mate said, that,by paying half adollar,
he would carry me where I could see the, and
- too. So went to a place they call tie cir
cus ; and a deuced droll place it was. Presently
in there pame some half a dozen horses, witl boys
on them, dressed out in jackets and pantaoons,
and, by smart whipping, drove the horses several
times round a kind of ring, and then they all lay
flat down, like a drove of obstinate mules. Guess
I teas bit. So I tried to get my money back again ;
but the fellow at the door was too cute for me
there. But I saw I was not alone in the scrape ;
several hundred as much taken in as myself—
some consolation in that.
Y'ou have heard of Governor Troup ?—So have
I. But, after all, he is not half so pugnacious as
he was said to be. His whiskers are darn’d red, to
be sure ; but then he is tarnation polite : And you
may meet him any where in the street without
any more danger of being run over or trod upon,
than though you had met the holy camel of the
Frophet, just from a pilgrimage to Mecca.
But the people are all wonderfully polite in this
climate. Yesterday I met wifti a little man who ;
shook my hand as lovingly as though we had been
friends for years. At first, I thought he had made !
a mistake, so I told him my name ; “ Ah ! my dear
fellow, (says he), I am glad to see you ! how is the
good woman and all the little ones ?” Could nt
tell, for the soul of me, who he meant by the good
woman and her little ones; but guessed he was
some relation of old Peg Merooney, whd, you
know, was lately taken up by the Select-men of
our town. So, 6ays I, they are very well off.
“ My dear Sir, (says he), I am glad to hear it-
YVhat do you drink ?” Drink ? why cider, says I.
With that he took me by the arm, in the politest
way you can conceive of, and led me into a sort
of tavern looking place, excepting that there was
no tign post at the door, and called for two tum
blers of cider, quite as nice as any we could have
got at the Deacon's. I offered to pay half the
reckoning ; but that he would’nt hear of. But,
taking me by the hand, which he squeezed very
affectionately, “ My dear fellow, (says he), I fiopo
you will support me ?” To a sartinty, says I. But,
could’nt, for the soul of me, guess what he meant. •
So I just asked a decent looking person, that came
in, who the little man was, with the brown coat
and red face. “O, he is a candidate, (says he),
and electioneering.” Electioneering, says I, and
what is Jtliat ? “ Just treating people for their •
votes, (says he); did’nt he squeeze your hand and ,
ask after your wife and children ?” Bless me, say3
I, I’ve got no wife; never went a-courting but •
once in my life—and then Polly Picket put snow
balls in my bed, and gave me the bag! My name
is Roger Longfellow, all the way from Vermont.
O, a Yankee doodle, (says he). But look, hero
comes another candidate ; he with the black
whiskers and big club.” True enough, came,
as polite and open-hearted as the other. But it
would have made your hair stand on eend just to
have heard him curse the Tariff and damn Jack
Clark. And who is Jack Clark, says I ? “He is the
Dare Devil,” said the decent man. A kind of
scarecrow’, I guess.
Rut what a tarnation sight of brandy, and gin,
and rum, and whisky, these electioneering folks
drink! I saw the little man with the red
treat forty-seven, of his particular friends in the
course of the forenoon,—and, at each time, he
took the strongest pull himself. He’ll get fuddled
to a sartinty, thinks I. But no such thing: He
kept himself as streight as a loon’s leg, and talked
politics like a law’yer Could’nt guess w hat kind
of an office it Was, for which he was recommend
ing himself by such queer means. So I just asked
a respectable looking man, in a cocked hat, to in
form me on this subject. “ Grog-drinker General
for the whole State of Georgia, by G—d, (says
he), and there isn’t a man better qualified for the
appointment!” Mighty queer offices they have in,
this country, thinks I, hut it will suit him to a T.
But, in the course o( the day, I met with at least
twenty candidates, all equally well qualified for
the appointment, my friend in the brown
coat. You shall hear further from me in my next.
Your friend and obedient servant,
ROGER LONGFELLOW.
Mr. Editor— l the other day strolled to a parti
cular part of the city, known, I believe, by no oth
et name than as the Town Commons, and remark
able in some measure for the refreshing breeze —
md at this season of the year, for the dclighful
‘lerdure of its appearance—with no companion
tut my tobacco box and walking cane—where I
seated myself in a secluded shady place on the
green sward, and fell into a train of thought on
the numberless evils to which mankind are expos
ed and the toe ten thousand vicissitudes of for
tune and health, which by our own acts, we so
frequently bring upon ourselves. Whilst my mind
was abstracted by these reflections, and almost in
sensible to passing events, the breeze sighing
sadly in my ear, and ever and anon some renega
do fly settling himself on my face, I w r aa suddenly
roused from my reverie by the appearance of the
most tcrrifick being I had ever seen or imagined
in the whole course ot my life—his stature w T as at
least seven feet, and his body strangely proporti
oned to it—he wore a pair of enormous red whis
kers, and his mouth appeared large enough for a
grocery-store —his eyes rolled horribly in their
orbits of about two inches diameter—and his nose
rose upon his face, at a kind of compound ratio to
ordinary ones—he carried with kirn a large needle
hanging from his coat collar, and a pair of sheers
that would have honored the strength of a Samp
son I was astonished and appalled at the dread
ful figure, and remained motionless, gazing at him.
Rise, 6aid lie, with the voice of a stentor—imme
diately extending his herculpan arm towards my
face, catching aiy nose between his finger and
thumb, and suspending me in the air—at the same
time holding his sheers with the other, so as to
embrace my neck in the angle. 1 -could not speak,
1“ but sighed, and looked unutterable things.”—
Base miscreant, said he, know that I am the Dea
mon of party—that misrule, rage n.nd anarchy are
the only laws that govern ine—consistency and
plain dealing I despise—speak then, or hang till
dooms-day; the command was no sooner given,
than a low half-smothered guttural interjection
issued from my mouth. I w’as dropped—and the
Imp, as if delivered of an onerous load, appeared
to relent ; for ho looked milder—l was relieved—
but human pleasures are ol abort duration—for
ere I could half ejaculate rny thanks for his mercy,
the clouds of discontent and rage darkened his
brow —his hair rose on end, and his whole body
writhed as if in torment —his appearance forbade
supplication, for reckless of my feelings he ex
tended me suddenly at full length, and in a voice
like thunder, commanded me to open ray mouth—
at the same time placing his thumbs on each side
of my jaws, and pressing with the vehemence of a
madman —they separated, for he had touched the
spring. Your tongue must Come out, said he—-
then indeed all the miseries of human life stared
me in the face, and the sweat run at every pore,
for I was agonizing. I was not left long in sus.
pense, for he again suited the action to the word,
by thrusting the points of his sheers to the root of
my tongue—they were sharp, and I knew it. I
saw distinctly the handles closing—l closed my
eyes—my struggles were useless—for with a slow
unerring movement, the operation was performed.
Your mouth must be sewed up, said he—for you
must neither eat, drink, uor speak—the needle was
immediately introduced—one murderous stitch
was taken—l struggled, with more than human
strength, to extricate myself—for the operation
and consequences were too violent for human na
ture, and with one violent and desperate exertion,
1 sprung from the ground, and stood erect—roared
murder—witches—fiends and sheers. I looked
around me, and soon found—it was only a Dream.
C. W.
WASHINGTON, MAY 26.—1n the
Senate on Saturday, many private aud lo
cal bills were passed; aud some time was
spent in the consideration of Executive
; business. In the evening session, a motion
to lake up the bill lor placing certain offi
cers and soldiers on the Pension List was
rejected. Some private bills were discus
sed and disposed of. After 11 o’clock, the
; orders were laid on the table, and the Se
nate went into Executive business. At 12,
the Senate adjourned.
The House of Representatives acted on
many ol the Senate bills on Saturday, and
closed their Legislative business for the
session, soon after midnight. A vote of
thanks to the Speaker was moved by Mr.
S. VV right, which led to a few remarks on
the uuusual character of the course ; but
the discussion was arrested by the demand
fur the previous question, and the resolu
tion was passed by a vote of 111 to 28. A
number of members declined votiug. The
discussion of the reports*of the two Select
Committees on Retrenchment and on the
Assault, was postponed, as well as all fur
ther proceedings on the subject of those
reports.
The two Houses of Congress terminated
their legislative labours for the present ses
sion, on Saturday night. The meeting this ,
morning is merely u pro forma matter;
and before this paper will be in the hands
, 0 f the greater part of even our city readers,
the adjournment wijl have taken place.
The House of Representatives were taken
bv surprise on Saturday, by the unusual
course of Mr. S Wright,, evidently ♦he re
sult of concert and consultation, in moving
a vote of thanks to the Speaker Such a
resolution, at the first session of a Con
gress, unless where the Speaker resigns his
station, is entirely without precedent. It
is true, that the leaders of the Opposition
have omitted no opportunity, during the
session which has just terminated* of ex
pressing their universal and unqualified
contempt of precedents ; and in this case
they have given another practical illustra
tion of that feeling. T. he Speaker has
certainly merited the thanks of his party.
Those thanks be has now received. But
the people may be as much at a loss as we
are to discover any extraordinary merit in
his course, or ability in his decisions, which
should call for so extraordinary mark of
approbation. Did the Opposition party
in the House consider it necessary to di
rect and fix public opinion on the subject !
Did thev desire, by this course, to awe the
people into that admiration which they
might not voluntarily express! Was it in
tended to convert the voice of the nation
into a mere echo of party acclamation!
We are justified in supposing that some
such motive led to this movement; because
we are utterly at a loss to perceive* in the
career of the Speaker, any of those indica
tions of mental superiority or political mag
nanimity, which, of themselves, would be
sufficient to warrant this procedure.
[Journal.
Alexander Macomb has been appointed
by the President of the United States,
with the advice and consent of the Senate,
to be a Major-General in the Army ot the
United States.
The bill for abolishing the office of Ma
jor General in the Army, which had pass
ed the House of Representatives, the reader
will recollect, was rejected in the Senate.
The Senate accordingly proceeded on Sa
turday, to consider the nomination of Gen.
Macomb, which was made by the Presi
dent some weeks ago. The injunction of
secresy having been removed from the pro
ceedings of Saturday, we are enabled to
lay before our readers the votes which
took place upon that question.
The first vote was upon a motion of Mr.
Eaton to lay the resolution on the table,
which was decided as follows:
YEAS—Messrs.Barnard, Branch,Chan
dler, Cobb, Eaton, Ellis, Foot, Ilayne,
Johnston, of Lou. M‘Lane, Macon, Parris,
Rowan, Silsbee, Smith, of Maryland, Taz
ewell, Tyler, Williams—lß
NAYS—Messrs Barton Bateman, Ben
ton, Bouligny, Chambers, Chase, Hend
ricks, King, M‘Kiuley, Marks, Noble,
Ridgely, Robbins, Ruggles, Seymour, Van
Buren, Webster, Willey, Woodbury—l 9.
The question then recurred on agreeing
to the nomination, and was decided as fol
lows ;
YEAS—Messrs. Barnard, Barton, Bate
man, Benton, Bouligny, Branch, Chambers,
Clnise, Foot Hendricks, King, M‘Kin!ey,
Marks, Noble, Parris, Ridgely, Robbins,
Ruggles Seymour, Siisbee, Smith of Mi
ryland, Thomas, Van Buren, Webster,
Willey, Williams—27.
NAYS—Messrs. Chandler, Cobb, Eat
on, Ellis, Hayne, Johnston of Lou , Me
Lane, Macon, Rowan, Tazewell, Tyler,
Woodbury—l 2,
The two important bills extending the
countenance of Congress to the Chesapeake
and Ohio Canal, received the signature of
the President of the United States on Sa
turday. A meeting of the subscribers to
the stock of the Canal Company is adver
tised to be held on Friday, the 20th of
next month, to choose the officers of the
Company. Intelligencer .
The following extract of a letter to the editors
of the Baltimore American, from a Member of
Congress, furnishes information which cannot
fail to be read with deep interest, —
“ W ashington, May 24ih—The citizens
of Ba timore must not infer from the fact
of the House of Representatives refusing to
pass the bill exempting from duty Iron and
Machinery for Rail Roads, that there ex
ists any other than the most fiiendly feel
ings towards this important work. The
fact is, that at the present session, Con
gress have actually voted nearly half a
million of dollars as an unconditional gift,
to aid and encourage this great experiment.
The duty, on bar iron is fixed at thirty
seven dollars and fifty cents per ton ; while
the duty on Kail Road Iron, which is no
thing more or less than bar iron, drilled,
cut and prepared to lay on the road, is spe
cially exempted from the operation of the
new tariff, and pays but twenty five per
cent, duty or thirty seven dollars per ton—-
at which price this correspondence with the
Company proves they can obtain it in En
gland. The duty will therefore be $9 1-2
per ton. which deducted from $37 1-2,
leaves a clear grant to the Company of
S2B 1-4 per ton, on 15,000 tons, or four
hundred and twenty-three thousand seven
hundred and fifty dollars. This argument
was conclusive with the Representatives
from the Iron Manufacturing States, who
are 144 in uumber. There is a large ma
jority of both Houses who will vote a sub
scription of oue million dollars to the stock
should the company require, or be wil
ling to accept, the aid of Congress in the
progress of the work.’*
_ EXECUTIVE APPOINTMENTS.
Extract of another letter to the Editors of the
American, dated
“ Washington, May 24.—The Senate
has coufiimed the nomination of Gen. V\ m.
Hinry Harrison as Minister Pienipoten
tiary to Colombia.
“ The nomination of Gen. Macomb, as
Commander in Chief of the Army of the
U. States, has beeu confirmed by the Se
nate.
“ General P. B. Porter is nominated,
and will doubtless be confirmed Secretary
gs War.
M Mr. Watts, late Charge to Colombia,
is nominated Secretary of Legation to St.
Peteisburgh.
‘ Mr. Taylor, son of the late Col. Tay
lor of Washington, is nominated Secretary
of Legation to Cofombia.
“ The bill increasing the compensation
of the Medical Staff of tlie Navy, has be
come a law. Also the bill allowing ten dol
lars, additional pay per month, and one ra
tion per day. to tiie Lieutenants of the
Navy.”
FROM ENGLAND.
By the arrival of the packet ship Napo
leon, Capt. Smith, who sailed from Liver
pool on the 25th of April, the Editors of
the Morning Courier have received their
regular files of London papers to the 24th,
and Liverpool to the 25th, all inclusive.
We have only time to make a few ex
tracts.
The passage of the Pruth has been post
poned on account of the weather.
Russia and Turkey. —Though the Rus
sians will not cross the Pruth till the be
ginning of May, the delay is to be attribut
ed to the state of the weather and the na
ture of the country, and not to any change
of determination on. the part of the Empe
ror Nicholas. It is the opinion of the most
well informed persons, that as the deter
mination to enter on an offensive war a
gaiust Turkey is so extremely popular
throughout Russia, it will be almost impos
sible to induce the Emperor to abandon
that determination.--mornm^ p Chronicle,
April 23.
Portugal. —(Extract of a letter dated
Lisbon, April sth) —If any thing could hi
therto induce Don Miguel to defer the ex
ecution of his designs, it is the certainty
that the diplomatic body, with the excep
tion of the minister of Spain, would protest
against aa act so contrary to legitimacy,
and that the representatives of the sover
eigns would haxo the court of the usurper
Evacuation of Spain — Bayonne , April
B.—The general who commands this place
received this morning a telegraphic des
patch from Paris, ordering the French
garrison of Pampeluna and St. Sebastian,
to evacuate those places immediately, and
to return to France.
[From the Paris Quotidienne.]
Frankfort , April 17. —[Private Corres
pondence ] The following is a summary
of the different accounts which are receiv
ed from various quarters through commer
cial channels :
“A great quantity of transport ships and
of flat boats, which had been successively
assembled at Taganrog, Keisonand Odes
sa, have arrived in the bay of Sebastapol,
where the Russian squadron of the Black
Sea is assembled. These ships, are, it is
said, to take on board troops aud horses,
which leads to the supposition that there is
really an intention of landing on some of
the coasts of Turkey.
In case the chief army of the Russians
cfoes nt invade Constantinople by the low
er Danube, or proceed along the coast of
the Black sea, the army is to be suppled
with provisions by means of the squadrons
and transports. It may be recollected that
in the late war against Constantinople the
Russian Cabinet conceived a plan of cam
paign similar to this ; and which was partly
put into execution
PARIS, April 20.—The States of the
Prussian Provinces of the lire have been
convoked for a near period, in order ii is
thought to demand a contingent of men
and money.
The following article, in allusion to Moore, is
from a late number of the London Literary Ga
zette. If any of our booksellers could lay his hand
on a stray copy of this collection of lampoons, he
might make a profitable job of it.—Lord Byrons
Curse of Minerva, we believe, was first printed
entire in this country.— Phil. Chronicle.
“ Rumours are abroad of another illustrious
bonfire in the world of letters. It is said that the
elegant author of many-popular works had recent
ly amused himself with writing a small volume en
titled Familiar Epistles, from Captain Rock to his
Majesty the King ; that this volume was printed
and that the whole impression, 5000 copies) wa
put into the flames on the eve of publication, in
consequence of a legal opinion signed by a cer
tain eminent barrister and Statesman to this ef
fect j “ there is a libel in every sentence, and sedi
tion in every page—no, not tbe whole impres
sion, for strange to say, this story comes to us
from Edinburgh, where our informant saw, and
perused a copy now in the possession of an emi
nent wit and critic of “ the north countrie.’—
Our friend adds, that the suppressed work is a$
remarkable for its wit as for its wickedness. Capt
Rock’s account of the breaking up of the late ca
binet excited, in particular, his highest admira
tion, and that chapter, he says, might be, and
ought to be, given to the public.
Anecdote of Mungo Park , —ln the case
of Mungo Park, we have a striking illus
tration of the use which Providence oft® l
makes of the most trifling means to animate
the mind. YV hen travelling in Africa be
was seized by a bawditti, plundered and lift
almost entirely destitute of clothing. “ 1°
ibis wretched situation he sat for sometime
looking around him with amazement and
horror. In the midst of a vast wilderness;
in the depth of the rainy season ; naked
and alone ; surrounded by savage animals,
and men still more savage; five hundred
miles from the nearest European settle*
ment.’ —all these circumstances crowded
at once on his recollection, and no wonder
his spirits (as he confesses) began to laid
him. “At this moa<ent (says he) painful
as my recollections were the extraordinatJ
beauty of a small moss, in ft uctuation, irre
sistibly caught ny eye. 2 mention d* ll
(he adds) to show from what trifling cto
cumstances the mind will sometimes derive
consolation; for though the whole
was not larger than one of my fingeis, *
could not conn mplate the delicate forP a *
tion of the roots, leaves and capsula, with*
out admi ation. Cau that Being, thought
I, who planted, watered and brought
perfection, in this obscure part of the I
a thing which appears of so small inip°
ance, look with unconcern on the situat> ott ß
and sufferings of creatures formed us e I
His* own image! Surely not? Refine* ■
tions like these, would not allQ' v
Jo despair. I started up and
both hunger and fatigue, travailed forwar
assured that relief wa§ at hand ; aud I*l
cot disappointed.”